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The Species Factory; Empty your mind
Topic Started: Nov 6 2014, 06:54 PM (33,413 Views)
Drakeking10
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Yeah, or a really big salt water crocodile.
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A large sized Macaque descendant that is on two legs (Not to dissimilar to Australopithecus)

Where did you get that idea, just out of interest?
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Beetleboy
Mar 30 2016, 11:20 AM
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A large sized Macaque descendant that is on two legs (Not to dissimilar to Australopithecus)

Where did you get that idea, just out of interest?
Just thought of those out the top of my head.
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Mobile plants that move from place to place following the sunlight?
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Tet the Zoologist
Mar 30 2016, 05:59 PM
Mobile plants that move from place to place following the sunlight?
That idea shares a similar basis with my Umbriel project. But that's about where the similarities end.
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Tet the Zoologist
Mar 30 2016, 05:59 PM
Mobile plants that move from place to place following the sunlight?
That could work. However, probably only when there is little to no sunlight, however. They might use some of their roots to pick themselves up from the ground, however.
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Techinically plants do move during the day to try and absorb as much sunlight as possible, they are just really slow at it
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Herbivorous dogs that unlike pandas are very successful? Piscivorous cats who behave similarly to otters and live most of their land life in the trees? And a more aquatic polar bear who survives better than the normal one.
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AGmantheAG
Mar 30 2016, 08:14 PM
Herbivorous dogs that unlike pandas are very successful? Piscivorous cats who behave similarly to otters and live most of their land life in the trees? And a more aquatic polar bear who survives better than the normal one.
Those are actually quite plausible. The Dog one I've seen in mine. He was chewing on plants, so, maybe, in time, dogs could become fully herbivorous. The Piscivorous cats might be possible, and the Aquatic Polar Bear sounds entirely possible, at the way that they swim, you could turn their legs into flippers.
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Mar 30 2016, 10:04 PM
AGmantheAG
Mar 30 2016, 08:14 PM
Herbivorous dogs that unlike pandas are very successful? Piscivorous cats who behave similarly to otters and live most of their land life in the trees? And a more aquatic polar bear who survives better than the normal one.
Those are actually quite plausible. The Dog one I've seen in mine. He was chewing on plants, so, maybe, in time, dogs could become fully herbivorous. The Piscivorous cats might be possible, and the Aquatic Polar Bear sounds entirely possible, at the way that they swim, you could turn their legs into flippers.
I wasn't implying flippers, just very adept at swimming in the water, like an otter, though they get outcompeted with land polar bears who are lees successful than them. The dogs do seem possible and would let them live for a longer time since they don't need to hunt, they would also be successful unlike pandas. The cats would be otter like or could hunt aquatic mammals instead.
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AGmantheAG
Mar 30 2016, 08:14 PM
And a more aquatic polar bear who survives better than the normal one.
Something like this? (But with fish or plankton instead of insects.)

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In North America the black bear was seen . . . swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale.
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Mar 30 2016, 11:00 PM
AGmantheAG
Mar 30 2016, 08:14 PM
And a more aquatic polar bear who survives better than the normal one.
Something like this? (But with fish or plankton instead of insects.)

Charles Darwin
 
In North America the black bear was seen . . . swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale.
More like swimming for the sake of being able to survive the melting ice caps. Less swimming for the sake of becoming a fully aquatic animals.
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Aquagrabbers:

A aquatic Posthuman that has adapted to a Europa like world. It is short, and slimy. They still retain their five fingers/ toes, but one thing makes them completely alien. They have no eyes. Due to the absence of light of their world, they gradually lost their eyes, as they never had a need to do so. They are 3 foot 2, with a mouth filled with sharp, conical teeth. They have a streamlined appearance, with a short fin on the top of their backs. Males are more territorial than females. Territories cover the surface areas of the endless sea. They have had their lungs gradually reverted back into gills. Females seemingly spend their lives wandering the ocean, only occasionally coming to males to mate with them, who then leave the responsibility of caring for the youngsters to the males. Once reaching the age of 10, females tend to join the next group that passes on by, whilst males tend to find their own territory in the open ocean, unaware of the cosmos above.

Huh, might use this idea for my upcoming Posthuman projec... oh wait, was I supposed to say that? Oh well, I'll post it sometime.
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